Example sentences of "[conj] make [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll either kill her or make her pass the sand . ’ |
| 2 | His reply was a joyful shout that made her grip the receiver tightly . |
| 3 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 4 | There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over . |
| 5 | Throughout that period I 've canvassed for the Labour Party , I 've campaigned for the Labour Party , I 've argued for the Labour Party and one of the items that made me join the Labour Party and one of the items I got other people to join the Labour Party was that Labour was a mass Party , because it consisted of hundreds of thousands of individual members and it consisted of millions of trade unionists . |
| 6 | It was pure chance that made me notice the writing on the top file , as I pushed open the window . |
| 7 | My soldiers were guarding the master copies of the very instructions that made them do the guarding . |
| 8 | The balloonists will need the clothes that make them resemble the Michelin man . |
| 9 | There are , of course , moments like ‘ Shoot Up Hill ’ that make you wish the NHS paid for and hygienically destroyed ‘ Been there — done that — got it out of my system in the studio ’ bouts of maudlin croaking . |
| 10 | But the words on the page did n't have the power to blot out the crack of hunting guns she was beginning to hear again inside her head , nor make her forget the sight of the blood trails on the hot plain . |
| 11 | The 24-valve straight six M50 unit is a simply gorgeous thing to see , with throttle response sharp enough to draw blood , urge aplenty for safe fourth-gear overtaking , a cultured yet appealingly guttural engine note and the kind of smoothness that makes you question the worth of even a good V12 . |
| 12 | Think , too , about the circumstances under which you can not keep to your resolves , and analyse exactly what it is that makes you behave the way you do . |
| 13 | Perhaps it is the distinctiveness of this particular anatomical colour that makes us forget the pure white quartzites that also occur at this level , even in our own Midlands ( as the Stiperstones Quartzite of west Shropshire ) . |
| 14 | It is n't just bad behaviour that makes us wish the ground would open under us : there are times when you 'd gladly disown your child when she gets to the top of the slide , freezes there and screams hysterically to be carried down . |
| 15 | It is not the weight of the cup that makes it reflect the light as it does , but rather its glaze . |
| 16 | ‘ Or do n't tell me that all those questions about Ryan were simply so that you could track him down and make him pay the money back ? ’ |
| 17 | Why Sir , they blind still those they take , And make them tell the stories of their lives , Which known , they do accordingly . |
| 18 | The government is now devising methods to enable them to use the welfare state to control people and make them tow the line . |
| 19 | At best , they have an instinctive feeling for what will please people and make them like the product . |
| 20 | ‘ Okay , blue-eyes , ’ I drawled , even though they were green , ‘ be difficult and make me twist the information from you until you scream for my kisses … ’ |
| 21 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |
| 22 | ‘ I mean , they get these ideas and these bees in their bonnets and try and make everyone think the same way , and they change all the rules and upset everything , and Freud got it wrong in one way and Marx got it wrong in another . ’ |
| 23 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 24 | You can not yoke the dragonfly and make it drive the corn-mill . |
| 25 | I can evoke the wind at will and make it rustle the stiff papery blades of the bamboos and sing , through the comb-like leaves of the yew , as a worthy accompaniment to the voice that on that day and on all other days , even to the final silence , spoke words that had always the same meaning . |
| 26 | If you can spot a possibility and make it work the result can be exciting , and do n't be afraid to use your sense of form , colour and originality . |
| 27 | He can kiss a strange baby and make it look the most natural thing in the world — another skill some of his younger and brighter rivals do not find easy . |
| 28 | Then the scuffles subside and I think I hear my bedroom door opening , so my finger tightens on the trigger and I hear my name and I shake my head and I recognize the voice and I know it is Jancey and she 's shouting where am I and I think they 've grabbed her and made her act the decoy and I 'm trying to work out what to do when I hear what she 's saying . |
| 29 | The other car had skidded into hers and made her forget the phone call . |
| 30 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |